Patricia O'Donovan | performing now

Visual theatre (including Puppet and Object Theatre), Oral Storytelling, Drawing and Papercutting, and Science (particularly Biology) are the fields of my expertise and practice.

I create performances that emerge from the encounter between these fields. Alongside my artistic practice, I research, teach, and write.

Kafka's "The Vulture": from Papercuts to Live Performance

The Vulture (העיט), a 20-minute highly gestural storytelling performance with a sequence of changing images: papercuts illuminated from the back, created for Kafka’s short story Der Geier.

Patricia O'Donovan

The Neuroscience and Performance of Co-Speech Gestures

Training workshop for actors, illustrators, storytellers and public speakers. Workshop in preparation, ready by mid 2027. Brain neurons. Drawing by Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934)

Patricia O'Donovan

At Work Now

Detail of papercut for Kleist's story 'The Earthquake in Chile'. 1 — "The Vulture" and new work I am currently performing The Vulture, based on Kafka’s Der Geier (see Performing Now), a live, highly gestural storytelling performance that brings together elements of oral storytelling, graphic novels/comics, and full-scene shadow puppetry. Voice and body movement interact with a sequence of paper-cut images that, illuminated from behind, are manually replaced as the story progr

Patricia O'Donovan

AMBULO Theater Company

A Jerusalem based company dedicated to Puppet Theater and Storytelling Performances, directed by Patricia O'Donovan

Patricia O'Donovan

Dramaturgy for puppeteers and storytellers.

I can guide you from idea, text or image to show Private lessons or group workshops. In person or by zoom. Languages: Hebrew, English and Spanish. email:patod3@gmail.com ++972-52 7453802 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Patricia O'Donovan